Your country contains more than just white slave owner descendants and black slave descendants. Different minority groups and people who had immigrated into the country after slavery ended would be paying from their pockets for something they'd have nothing to do with. Or am I wrong about how exactly the government would get this money?

Yeah thats kinda how taxes work. Thats life dude.

Don't want to come out as arrogant or anything but "That's life dude" isn't an argument. I'll just leave it here I guess.

It wasnt meant to be. I was acknowledging your point but unlike you I accept that its normal.

Your country contains more than just white slave owner descendants and black slave descendants. Different minority groups and people who had immigrated into the country after slavery ended would be paying from their pockets for something they'd have nothing to do with. Or am I wrong about how exactly the government would get this money?

Yeah thats kinda how taxes work. Thats life dude.

So you would punish every race in America for the past. Gotcha

On the subject reparations are already being paid in the form of grants only for black students to go to college, diversity quotas in the workplace and if you're a minority that chooses to go to school in an area the has very few of said minority they qualify for more money. http://www.collegescholarships.org/grants/minority.htm

It also should be noted that slavery had huge benefits to the land owners in the south who by proxy had a huge influence on politics. With the north and federal law largely moving towards the outlawing of slavery they would push there money behind politicians who were for seceding. So in a roundabout way it was about slavery.

That's like saying Britain to pay royalties to my family because we are Irish and Irish people were used as cannon fodder during the First World War... we all need to just calm down and not ask for ridiculous things like compensation for things the whole world is guilty of, like slavery

I mean finding an article with a bibliography on this particular website is going to be hard. Just seems to be how they roll.

Again, touche. Nevertheless, an article devoted to refuting ideas with factual information should at least cite a few sources. They don't necessarily need an entire bibliography, but they could give a mention here or there about where they got which information from -- perhaps a link to another site or a page from a certain book.

Your country contains more than just white slave owner descendants and black slave descendants. Different minority groups and people who had immigrated into the country after slavery ended would be paying from their pockets for something they'd have nothing to do with. Or am I wrong about how exactly the government would get this money?

Yeah thats kinda how taxes work. Thats life dude.

So you would punish every race in America for the past. Gotcha

On the subject reparations are already being paid in the form of grants only for black students to go to college, diversity quotas in the workplace and if you're a minority that chooses to go to school in an area the has very few of said minority they qualify for more money. http://www.collegescholarships.org/grants/minority.htm

I dont consider taxes to be a punishment. Its a civil duty.

So going by your logic if any people from Africa move to the US they should have a higher tax rate to make up for any possible ancestors that sold slaves to the Americans. After all if they didn't trade slaves to the Americans we would never have got hooked on the slave trade.

Oh and I already pay taxes telling people to pay more would only hurt the middle class and the poor class more, but all in the name of social justice.
Oh am I glad most politicians would be voted out of office if they tried this.

So going by your logic if any people from Africa move to the US they should have a higher tax rate to make up for any possible ancestors that sold slaves to the Americans. After all if they didn't trade slaves to the Americans we would never have got hooked on the slave trade.

Oh and I already pay taxes telling people to pay more would only hurt the middle class and the poor class more, but all in the name of social justice.
Oh am I glad most politicians would be voted out of office if they tried this.

Um no Im saying tax money should go to reparations. There should be no selective taxing system is already rangled up as it is.

So going by your logic if any people from Africa move to the US they should have a higher tax rate to make up for any possible ancestors that sold slaves to the Americans. After all if they didn't trade slaves to the Americans we would never have got hooked on the slave trade.

Oh and I already pay taxes telling people to pay more would only hurt the middle class and the poor class more, but all in the name of social justice.
Oh am I glad most politicians would be voted out of office if they tried this.

Um no Im saying tax money should go to reparations. There should be no selective taxing system is already rangled up as it is.

So how much would you give to every black person? Give me a flat number.

So going by your logic if any people from Africa move to the US they should have a higher tax rate to make up for any possible ancestors that sold slaves to the Americans. After all if they didn't trade slaves to the Americans we would never have got hooked on the slave trade.

Oh and I already pay taxes telling people to pay more would only hurt the middle class and the poor class more, but all in the name of social justice.
Oh am I glad most politicians would be voted out of office if they tried this.

Um no Im saying tax money should go to reparations. There should be no selective taxing system is already rangled up as it is.

So how much would you give to every black person? Give me a flat number.

So going by your logic if any people from Africa move to the US they should have a higher tax rate to make up for any possible ancestors that sold slaves to the Americans. After all if they didn't trade slaves to the Americans we would never have got hooked on the slave trade.

Oh and I already pay taxes telling people to pay more would only hurt the middle class and the poor class more, but all in the name of social justice.
Oh am I glad most politicians would be voted out of office if they tried this.

Um no Im saying tax money should go to reparations. There should be no selective taxing system is already rangled up as it is.

So how much would you give to every black person? Give me a flat number.

Once again im talking about taxes.

So what do you want a tax break for blacks "by how much", the government to send a check? How would the blacks get the money is what I want to know.

So going by your logic if any people from Africa move to the US they should have a higher tax rate to make up for any possible ancestors that sold slaves to the Americans. After all if they didn't trade slaves to the Americans we would never have got hooked on the slave trade.

Oh and I already pay taxes telling people to pay more would only hurt the middle class and the poor class more, but all in the name of social justice.
Oh am I glad most politicians would be voted out of office if they tried this.

Um no Im saying tax money should go to reparations. There should be no selective taxing system is already rangled up as it is.

So how much would you give to every black person? Give me a flat number.

Once again im talking about taxes.

So you would give them ALL the taxes?

Also, since I have ancestors that were essentially brought over as slave labor, should I get a share of all these taxes even though I am white?